Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
Course:
Stavinoha
Mod English 1, 2, 3, 4
Unit Name and #:
Dates:
Week 19
1/6/15 – 1/9/15
Once or twice weekly, students work on our computer-based Reading Smart program. Skills
strengthened in this program include:
VOCABULARY:
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Use reference aids: dictionaries
Rely on context to determine meaning
Word analysis: roots and affixes
Word analysis: Greek and Latin roots and affixes
Identify and use multiple meaning words
Distinguish between denotative and connotative meanings
Sight word and sight word vocabulary
Cognates
Identify and interpret figurative language
Figurative language: idioms/phrasal verbs
Figurative language: analogies
READING COMPREHENSION:
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Identify main idea
Identify supporting details
Identify implied main idea
Identify stated main idea
Support responses with textual evidence
Distinguish between fact and opinion
Draw inferences: conclusions/generalizations
Predict outcomes
Organize text: cause and effect
Identify author’s purpose
Paraphrase or summarize text
1/5/15
Monday
What are we learning?
***NO CLASSES FOR STUDENTS***
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
Checks for Understanding:
What do I need to be successful?
Materials:
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW:
1/6/15
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: Students will work on our online Reading Smart program. Skills worked on
are included at the beginning of the lesson plan template.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities: computer-based activities
Tuesday
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: computer-based assessments
Checks for Understanding: Students have to master each objective in order to move to the
next level. I can check scores live and am able to provide immediate assistance when
students are struggling with a concept.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Computer and headphones
AFTER FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2015, ALL STUDENTS
ARE REQUIRED TO BRING THEIR LAPTOP COMPUTERS—
CHARGED—TO EACH CLASS PERIOD.
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none
1/7/15 and 1/8/15
What are we learning?
TEKS Daily Objectives:
#1
Students will make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support their
understanding.
How will we learn it?
Students will work in centers with short passages that they will be making inferences on and
providing evidence from the text to support their answers.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Formative assessment at this time. Teacher will monitor students
and clarify any questions students may have.
Wed/Thur
Checks for Understanding: Students will provide an exit ticket at the end of the period
indicating their understanding of inferences.
#2
Students will determine the meaning of grade-level technical academic English words
in multiple content areas (e.g., science, mathematics, social studies, the arts) derived
from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities: Students will receive explicit instruction on the meanings of the
following academic vocabulary (which they will encounter in next week’s readings):
CONTEXT, INTERPRET, REVEAL, SIGNIFICANT, TRADITION, NARRATOR, POINT OF VIEW,
OMNICIENT. Students will provide examples of how each vocabulary word is used in
literature.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Formative at this time.
Checks for Understanding: Students examples of how each vocabulary word is used in
literature will indicate their understanding of the new academic vocabulary.
#3
Students will analyze the way in which a work of fiction is shaped by the narrator's
.point of view.
How will we learn it?
Students will be introduced to the the following narrative perspectives (point of view): firstperson, second-person, third-person objective, third-person limited, third-person omniscient.
Students will take notes pertaining to the narrator’s point of view, and will work with partners
to identify point of view in short passages.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Formative at this time.
Checks for Understanding: Teacher monitoring and correcting as needed.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Skeleton notes, pencil
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none
Friday
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: Daily Objective: Students will work on our online Reading Smart program.
Skills worked on are included at the beginning of the lesson plan template.
TEKS/AP/Standards:
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities: computer-based activities
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: computer-based assessments
Checks for Understanding: Students have to master each objective in order to move to the
next level. I can check scores live and am able to provide immediate assistance when
students are struggling with a concept.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Computer and headphones
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none